Wow Technorati

See that spike in daily income from AdSense? Almost all of it is coming from Technorati on a lazy Sunday from just one article: Microsoft's Second Act?

It is the shortest of the few posts I have done for Technorati so far. And it brought me $12 in just one day. Wow. This is my best one day return on AdSense ever.

Just when my tech startup is taking off in a way that I don't really need to make money from blogging, my blogging is also taking off looks like.

Technorati is a Top 30 web property. The links that I send to my blog - this blog - from my posts at Technorati have already done wonders for the traffic to this blog. A few hundred are direct clicks, sure. But mostly those links make you look good with Google, and Google sends you traffic by showing you more often in search results.
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Looking good, Technorati.

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Social Concentric Circles

1. Self
2. Family
3. Close friends, close relatives
4. Close colleagues
5. "Friends"/Acquaintances/Distant Relatives/Corporate Team Members In Large Organizations
6. Customers/Voters
7. Fans
8. Humanity

I drew this diagram years back perhaps early in 2005 right before I moved to NYC. I had it published at a few blogs of mine. But then I had two Google accounts. At one point Google suggested I merge my two AdSense accounts. I said okay. Next thing you know all my blogs associated with one account simply disappeared. That included a book I was working on. And there is not a number you can call. Google simply does not believe in customer service. All its stuff is automated, which works fine more than 99% of the time. But I still lost a lot of material.

I had the diagram saved on a desktop. But that computer died a few months back. Kids, don't drink tequila. I mean, get anti-virus.

So I just went ahead and redrew it. This is just one of many possible social concentric cirlces. There are people who live alternate lifestyles. There are people to whom some of the outer circles mean much more than some of the inner circles. Several circles might simply be absent for many people.

The thing is the volatility increases as you go to the outer circles.

The dark blue zone is the enemy zone. When you smoke, you are your own enemy. Friends can turn on you. There might be a Judas at the table. Customers might desert you. Fans might snatch your hair.

In a big city like New York, you are likely to end up with more circles. That is where the people being not nice talk comes from. These are people in outer circles you meet - asteroids - that you just don't meet in small towns.

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Slow Down The Blogging

Image via WikipediaWork is picking up, and that might mean I might have to slow down the blogging a bit. But I don't want to. Blogging is working out for the mind, and it makes no sense for a knowledge worker to slow down on blogging.

But one post a day is the goal, and anything more is bonus. Or at least that is what I thought. I have been blogging several times a day for months now.

Blogging several times a day feels like this.

2000 Squats
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Some people have asked me, how do you make time for blogging? Implicit in that question is the suggestion that blogging is something you do on top of work. I don't see it that way. Blogging is part of my work. And, no, I don't mean AdSense peanuts. I mean blogging is like my online resume. My blog allows me to do a lot of work related socializing online. I have entered into credible conversations because I have an active blog.

Because I am an active blogger, I believe I am a more active reader of tech news.

Chris Dixon put it best during StartUp Week: "You have to blog, you have to tweet, that is the number one piece of advice."

Think about that. He calls it the number one thing to do as a tech entrepreneur.

The idea is not to slow down the blogging. The idea is to pack as much blogging in as possible. But if the pace goes down a little due to time considerations, I would not complain.

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